Given the Azure tools and portal for Visual Studio 2008, there are 4 likely modes of execution during your development cycle:
- Testing in Visual Studio (with no Azure environment)
- Testing in Visual Studio using the local Azure Development Fabric/Storage
- Staged on the Azure portal
- Deployed on the Azure portal
#1 mostly applies when you have an application that you are porting, or you are development components that may become part of the application.
At times you may find it useful to know if you are running inside or outside of the Azure environment (i.e. 1 vs. 2/3/4).
Providing you have included the appropriate assembly reference, you can use this API to detect your environment and take appropriate action while developing and testing your components at the stages above.
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